Mouthful of Birds

Copyright

Copyright © 2019 by Samanta Schweblin

English translation copyright © 2019 by Megan McDowell

Originally published, in Spanish and in somewhat different form, as Pájaros en la boca by Random House Mondadori in 2010

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Schweblin, Samanta, author. | McDowell, Megan, translator.

Title: Mouthful of birds : stories / Samanta Schweblin ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.

Description: First American edition. | New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. | “Originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Pájaros en la boca by Random House Mondadori.”

Identifiers: LCCN 2018000127 | ISBN 9780399184628 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399184642 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Schweblin, Samanta—Translations into English.

Classification: LCC PQ7798.29.C5388 A2 2018 | DDC 863/.64—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000127

p. cm.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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